Quotes About Overwhelmed

You don't belong here, Miss Kimble. You're completely in over your head. Learn to swim, or drown. Those are your only choices when it comes to the Sullivans. Now,

There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.

So much hate and depression is making me feel sick, although that could also be attributed to the Pringles that I sandwiched between two Oreos.

I want to cry because my mind is working too much

But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Lucian stared at him, overwhelmed. "What are you all of a sudden?" he demanded gruffly. "An ancient wiseman?" Jory pointed to himself. "Look at me, cousin. Did ancient wisemen have shoulders like mine?

I'm just sick of all the misery, my absolute lack of control over everything.

I feel tears well in my eyes and I can't even stop them from happening. I can't stop anything from happening in my life.

I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy.

And suddenly I started to cry. Serious sobs, the kind where your stomach hurts and you can't breathe and there's snot running down your face. I was crying so hard I couldn't even mute the sounds I was making, and Luke put his hand on my back and I thought about how everyone would think that I was crying because of Stacy's fucking speech and I wanted to kill someone. I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could.

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

I wade through the rush of neglect and loss and sadness pouring through a hole in my hull.

Jackson's screams were drowned out

My mind is reeling.

When you're becoming overwhelmed, just make a list. Make a list and do one thing at a time.

One kills so many people, these days, that it's hard to keep track.

I try to explain how people react when overwhelmed by confusion and negative emotions. Some drink too much. Others overeat or beat their wives or kick the cat. And a surprising number hold their hands against a hot plate or slice open their skin with a razor blade. It's an extreme coping mechanism. They talk about their inner pain being turned outward. By giving it a physical manifestation they find it easier to deal with. (35)

I tried to go back to sleep, but my mind was racing racing racing. Only I wasn't really thinking about anything specific. It was just this stream of words and half thoughts, like there were a thousand different channels in my brain and someone was flipping through them one after the next.

Too hot to wonder why your head throbbed and the world spun slowly around you.

You better stop Look around Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.

Elmarie and I were swamped. At that stage we were handling fifteen active serial killers between us, of whom seven were in my head.

Estou farto, farto de atum. Vomito atum por todos os lados, tenho um sabor a atum entranhado até à alma.

In less well-ordered families a great deal of energy is expended in constant negotiations and strife, and in the children's attempts to protect their fragile selves from being overwhelmed by other people's goals.

A person who is healthy, rich, strong, and powerful has no greater odds of being in control of his consciousness than one who is sickly, poor, weak, and oppressed. The difference between someone who enjoys life and someone who is overwhelmed by it is a product of a combination of such external factors and the way a person has come to interpret them—that is, whether he sees challenges as threats or as opportunities for action.